| Show EFFORTS TO RESTORE J PEACE IN TRANSVAAL t b United u o te States Transmits Tr An All Appeal From the Re Republics Rei Republics t to publics to Great Britain 0 J Good d Offices of This Country Being Used But Not Not in i the Form of Tender of Mediation Washington March 12 There is I rea reason re reason son sn to t believe beleve that the Ute United States government is i using rising good go offices S to t restore peace between Great Gret Britain and the South African rien republics This I has ha not taken taen the shape of a proffer per of mediation That would woul be dIstinctly doU ty re repugnant repugnant j to Great Britain and an accord ae according j ing to the rule of international law j which has without exception governed j I the thc state department in the pest past pst could I not be 01 d by b the United States Ste until it was wa known kown to be acceptable a Jab to I both parties partes to the war 1 But the United Unite very ver properly serve sene as ag an intermediate to t transmit an appeal for peace and the I terms upon which peace pec can be b secured Good Offices Extended I ITe Goo Oce The Te United Unite States has ha successfully 1 served ned in this thi capacity acl in th the past not notably notably I ably abl in the termination of the ps China Japan apan war and an it i is 1 believed beHee that good I offices in this line lne are now no being beng g ex j tended tende J I If I this believe blee is well wen founded toun then Adelbert Hay Ha United States consul to t Pretoria Pretoria has been the instrument for i transmitting to the British government i through the double intervention of the state department and Ambassador j I an application from Kruger and Steyn Ste n to be b informed as to the terms upon which the war can cn be j I ended j I The facts fact in the case c wilt will wl 1 be e fully fuU I developed in a day da or two Calls Cals on on ray Hay Ry Lord called cled at the th state department late in n the afternoon and an spent half an hour with wih Secretary Hay Ha HaI If I he was made acquainted with the tenor of or any communication ton relative to I peace that may ma have come from Pre Pretoria Pretoria toria torla he hf gave no sign of the fact fact The officials of the department also als maintained a reserve respecting this subject that was wa impenetrable and all al that could be obtained from them was ws an injunction to await awai the develop developments ments meats of the next hours hour It I is surmised from that that the de department department department Is restrained restine from the subject by a regard for tor the diplo diplomatic diplomatic matic proprieties and especially be because because cause cau of the requirement that tat the per persons p persons sons son to whom wom a is addressed addred I 1 should be permitted to receive it i before bure br j its It substance 6 is made public m re a motet It it probable pr bable that he would not be b able ble te J Inform the state stat department that he le delivered morrow it to Lord Salisbury before to tomorrow j I 1 |
